A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is. Paul Mooney More Quotes by Paul Mooney More Quotes From Paul Mooney Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it. Paul Mooney racism talking insanity I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. Paul Mooney naive passive passionate People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it. Paul Mooney reason sometimes people America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners. Paul Mooney soldier doe america I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike. Paul Mooney black morning people What does America love more than one white male? Paul Mooney males white america An audience can be like a pack of wolves. Paul Mooney packs-of-wolves packs audience I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them. Paul Mooney traps path people I'm as American as apple pie. Paul Mooney apples pie apple-pie America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself. Paul Mooney rap police america When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules. Paul Mooney hollywood-films unwritten black I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self. Paul Mooney real self white A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat. Paul Mooney goats stills My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody. Paul Mooney nuclear blow mind I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes. Paul Mooney grandmother southern thinking White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them. Paul Mooney white fun people A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby. Paul Mooney having-a-baby knows baby If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored. Paul Mooney bored ifs People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.' Paul Mooney ask-me today people What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. Paul Mooney black self mean
